Caste totipotency and conflict in a large-colony social insect

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1488, 2002, Pages 263-270

  Strassmann, Joan E ^a   Sullender, Barry W ^a   Queller, David C ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste; Conflict; Parachartergus; Relatedness; Social insects; Worker policing

Indexed keywords

CASTE; COLONY; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

ANIMAL CASTE; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; INSECT; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASP;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; MALE; OVARY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; COLOBOPTERUS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PARACHARTERGUS; PARACHARTERGUS COLOBOPTERUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 53149130972     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1880     Document Type: Article

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